London, Austin/Desmond Contemporary Books, 1989
Deluxe copy with an original signed watercolour. The complete portfolio of Selected poems of Federico Garcia Lorca illustrated by Terry Frost with 11 etchings and aquatints. This is one of 15 copies with an original signed watercolour.
Frost discovered Lorca in the mid-1970s. Or rather, he first discovered the Duende, what Lorca defined as those moments in reality that are so heightened, and felt with such intensity, that one is forced to confront the significance of the experience. For fifteen years, Frost read and re-read Lorca's poetry, in which he found a mirror of his Duende experience: 'With Lorca I travel on a ride to no-man's land. There I am; my emotions take on a new distance and the extent between life and death becomes forever.'
By 1989, Frost had developed his Lorcan theme to the point where he wished to dedicate a whole suite to the Spaniard's poetry, an assembled box of printed images that would encapsulate his cohabitation with these words over the past two decades. Eleven poems were chosen, with eleven etchings to accompany. In their strength of colour, form, and harmonious arrangement, their technical complexity, involving multiple processes including hand-colouring and embossing, they are undoubtedly the most accomplished and coherent of Frost's many portfolios of prints.
Limited edition, one of 15 copies with an original watercolour, from a total edition of 75 (and 15 hors commerce); folio (61.5 x 42); eleven etchings and aquatints in colour some with handcolouring, on Arches wove paper, each signed in pencil to bottom right corner, justification signed and numbered by the artist, original watercolour signed and countersigned in pencil, loose as issued in illustrated wrappers; in the original black calf box with printed vellum label and title in red, vellum label detached, lined with black moiré silk, a very good copy.
Frost discovered Lorca in the mid-1970s. Or rather, he first discovered the Duende, what Lorca defined as those moments in reality that are so heightened, and felt with such intensity, that one is forced to confront the significance of the experience. For fifteen years, Frost read and re-read Lorca's poetry, in which he found a mirror of his Duende experience: 'With Lorca I travel on a ride to no-man's land. There I am; my emotions take on a new distance and the extent between life and death becomes forever.'
By 1989, Frost had developed his Lorcan theme to the point where he wished to dedicate a whole suite to the Spaniard's poetry, an assembled box of printed images that would encapsulate his cohabitation with these words over the past two decades. Eleven poems were chosen, with eleven etchings to accompany. In their strength of colour, form, and harmonious arrangement, their technical complexity, involving multiple processes including hand-colouring and embossing, they are undoubtedly the most accomplished and coherent of Frost's many portfolios of prints.
Limited edition, one of 15 copies with an original watercolour, from a total edition of 75 (and 15 hors commerce); folio (61.5 x 42); eleven etchings and aquatints in colour some with handcolouring, on Arches wove paper, each signed in pencil to bottom right corner, justification signed and numbered by the artist, original watercolour signed and countersigned in pencil, loose as issued in illustrated wrappers; in the original black calf box with printed vellum label and title in red, vellum label detached, lined with black moiré silk, a very good copy.
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